Grumplets and Pests
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“It looks like it!” Mom gave me a high-five.
I reached into my backpack and pulled out my camera. “I forgot to take a photo when the grumplets were around. Do you think you could get a photo of us by the grumplet footprints for my science journal?”
Mom took the camera, and Pip and Sassafras and I gathered around the footprints and grinned.
At home, as I went to put the photo into my science journal, I noticed a sweet smell. “No way,” I said to myself as I tilted the photo left, then right. Yep. I could just barely make out the sparkly strands of Pip’s joy floating around him.
After I glued down the scented photo, I opened my science journal to a new blank page so it was ready for the next magical creature we would meet.
GLOSSARY
Aphid: A small insect that feeds on sap from plants and damages them.
Larva: The baby form of an insect that goes through metamorphosis (which means it looks very different at different ages).
Migration: When a living thing moves from one place to another based on the seasons (temperatures).
Pest: An animal or insect that damages another animal or plant.
Pesticide: A chemical that kills pests but is often harmful to other animals (including people!).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AND ILLUSTRATOR
ASIA CITRO used to be a science teacher, but now she plays at home with her two kids and writes books. When she was little, she had a cat just like Sassafras. He loved to eat bugs and always made her laugh (his favorite toy was a plastic human nose that he carried everywhere). Asia has also written three activity books: 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids, The Curious Kid’s Science Book, and A Little Bit of Dirt. She has yet to find a baby dragon in her backyard, but she always keeps an eye out, just in case.
MARION LINDSAY is a children’s book illustrator who loves stories and knows a good one when she reads it. She likes to draw anything and everything but does spend a completely unfair amount of time drawing cats. Sometimes she has to draw dogs just to make up for it. She illustrates picture books and chapter books as well as painting paintings and designing patterns. Like Asia, Marion is always on the lookout for dragons and sometimes thinks there might be a small one living in the airing cupboard.
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